Winter Words, Op 52 (Britten)
from Leighton: Earth, Sweet Earth; Britten: Winter Words (CKD329)
1 At day-close in November [1'33]
2 Midnight on the Great Western 'The journeying boy' [5'18]
3 Wagtail and baby 'A satire' [2'07]
4 The little old table [1'24]
5 The choirmaster's burial 'The tenor man's story' [4'21]
6 Proud songsters 'Thrushes, finches and nightingales' [1'04]
7 At the railway station, Upway 'The convict and the boy with the violin' [3'33]
8 Before life and after [3'46]
23 minutes 6 seconds 8 tracks
BBC Music Magazine
'The first time you hear Earth, Sweet Earth (Laudes Terrae) by Kenneth Leighton (1929-88), the piano introduction is so elaborate, pensive and self-sufficient you forget the voice will enter at ...
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